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Gabe Polsky writes, directs and produces this documentary which focuses on the Soviet Union's famed Red Army hockey team. During the Cold War, the national team of the Soviet Union dominated the sport of ice hockey. Featuring interviews with the team's former players alongside archive footage of their heroics, the feature chronicles their success and how it was used as a symbol of national strength by their communist government. Following their success, the star players, led by captain Slava Fetisov, were recruited by the American National Hockey League, putting them on a collision course with their tyrannical coach Viktor Tikhonov and their country.
Melanie Griffith stars in this cult sci-fi feature. In 2017, in post-apocalyptic America, wealthy businessman Sam Treadwell (David Andrews) hires renegade tracker Edith E. Johnson (Griffith) to help him find an exact duplicate of his short-circuited android wife Cherry 2000. But on their way to the dangerous Zone 7 the pair have to get past its overseer Lester (Tim Thomerson) and his gang of thugs.
Double bill of British wartime comedies directed by Oswald Mitchell. In 'Jailbirds' (1940), escaped convicts Nick (Charles Hawtrey) and Bill (Albert Burdon) get jobs working in a bakery where they try to hide a stolen diamond necklace by placing it in a loaf of bread. But the pair are forced to come up with a daring scheme to recover the stolen jewels when the prized necklace goes missing. 'Sailors Don't Care' (1940), follows the antics of father and son Nobby (Tom Gamble) and Joe Clark (Edward Rigby) after they join the River Patrol Service.
Henry Palfrey (Ian Carmichael) is one of life's losers. Despised and disregarded at work, his prospective girlfriend April (Janette Scott) is whisked from under his nose by charming bounder Raymond Delauney (Terry-Thomas). In desperation, Henry enrols at Stephen Potter's (Alastair Sim) College of Lifemanship, where he gradually learns how to get one up on the other fellow.
Documentary directed by the elusive street artist Banksy. Using footage shot by eccentric French amateur film-maker Thierry Guetta, the film follows the shop owner as he immerses himself in the underground world of guerilla street art. He joins the scene through his cousin, mosaic artist Invader, and documents camera-shy artists including Shepard Fairey and Banksy at work. But as Thierry films them for his art documentary, Banksy turns the camera back on its holder and shows how Guetta created the pop-street art alter ego known as 'Mr Brainwash' and became an overnight sensation in the LA art world.
Colonel Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) is a war hero whose peacekeeping mission to Yemen goes horribly wrong when he orders his men to open fire on a group of demonstrators. The colonel is subsequently charged with murder and asks his comrade-in-arms Hays Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones), a military lawyer of questionable ability, to defend him at the court martial. But when Hodges starts investigating he is surprised to find evidence that points to a cover-up. William Friedkin ('The Exorcist', 'The French Connection') directs.
Modern update of 'The Wizard of Oz' with Diana Ross as Dorothy leading her gang of no-gooders to the disco chic city of New York. Plenty of Motown music and dance routines are provided by an all black cast.
Robert Day directs this British sci-fi horror. Manning the experimental Y-13 aircraft, intrepid test pilot Dan Prescott (Bill Edwards) flies deeper into space than any man before him. After losing radio contact with mission control, and being bombarded by mysterious cosmic rays, Dan's wrecked craft is recovered hours later back on Earth with the pilot nowhere to be found. However, a spate of gruesome attacks on cattle and then humans, by a bloodthirsty creature, suggests Dan is still alive, if in a somewhat changed form...
Jonas Govaerts directs and co-writes this Belgian slasher horror following a group of cub scouts. Bullied by his peers, imaginative 12-year-old Sam (Maurice Luijten) stumbles upon a young wolf-boy named Kai (Gill Eeckelaert), who has long been rumoured to live in the wilderness, when his scout troop becomes lost on a camping trip. Although his party and scout leader Peter (Stef Aerts) all disbelieve Sam at first, they are forced to accept his claims when they discover Kai's hunter father (Jan Hammenecker)'s murderous traps waiting for them...
Action feature starring Linden Ashby and Rutger Hauer. At the Atlanta Olympics, the women's US swimming team are taken hostage by a group of terrorists led by Omodo (Andrew Divoff), who will not release them until their demands are met. When the gang shoot one of the swimmers on live television, the FBI arrange for an anti-terrorist expert (Hauer) to guide former martial arts champion-turned-janitor Jack Bryant (Ashby) in a counter-attack on the insurgents.
Children's fantasy adventure about a boy and his extraordinary dog. After being diagnosed with an anxiety disorder Bobby Spade (Will Spencer) is given a dog named Ozzy as a form of therapy. He soon discovers Ozzy isn't any normal canine and was once owned by a powerful wizard and has lived for over 600 years. On Bobby's 12th birthday, Ozzy helps him discover an ancient book of spells that he uses to transform himself into a masterful magician. But, with his new powers, Bobby finds himself up against evil wizard Lord Gargheon (Sasha Malarevsky) who has travelled through time to reclaim his rightful book of magic.
Spanish historical drama based on the life of 16th century playright Lope de Vega. Returning to Madrid from the war, an eagerly ambitious Lope (Alberto Ammann) is forced to take a job as a copyist while he dreams of finding fame and fortune. He soon falls for his employer's seductive daughter, Elena (Pilar López de Ayala), little realising that she is in fact already married. When she refuses to end her marriage for a future with the struggling writer, Lope causes a scandal by publicising their affair. Now accused of slander, Lope goes on the run, where he soon finds help in the form of his childhood friend, the beautiful Isabel (Leonor Watling).
Brooklyn-set comedy written, directed by and starring Desiree Akhavan. Shirin (Akhavan) is a woman in her twenties who has just broken up with her girlfriend Maxine (Rebecca Henderson) and still hides the truth about her sexuality from her conservative Iranian parents. Working as a film teacher to overprivileged five-year-olds, Shirin struggles to get over Maxine and seeks to achieve some semblance of a personal, professional and cultural balance in her life on her own terms. A goal not aided by her overachieving brother and his new and adored Persian fianceé who both happen to be highly successful in the field of medicine, much to her parents' delight.
In this US remake of his 1997 film 'Funny Games', director Michael Haneke delivers a savage critique on the way violence is portrayed in the media. Arriving at their remote holiday cabin in the Hamptons for a quiet vacation, George (Tim Roth), his wife Ann (Naomi Watts), and their young son Georgie (Devon Gearheart), find themselves subjected to a harrowing ordeal involving mental and physical torture, when two young, psychotic killers come calling.
Martial art expert Kurt Sloane (Jean-Claude van Damme) learns some unorthodox fighting techniques in preparation for a deadly competition in Thailand, where he hopes to avenge his brother who was paralysed in a previous match.
Low-budget Uruguayan horror. Filmed entirely on a hand-held camera, supposedly in an uninterrupted single take, the film follows a father (Abel Tripaldi) and daughter (Florencia Colucci) who move to a remote house to escape the dark secrets of their past. But no sooner do they arrive than a sequence of mysterious and disturbing noises and events begins to unfold, driving the pair to the brink of madness and beyond.
Originally released in the cinema as a portrait of early 1980s Britain, this fictionalized documentary about The Clash was disowned by the band after it was made and declared 'disgusting' by The Daily Mail. It is partly a study of the band and partly a story about a fictional fan, Ray Gange, who attends the band's concerts and becomes involved in the oppositional political culture of the day, joining in political demonstrations and attending the 'Rock Against Racism' tour. Over the course of the film, Ray follow the band to a number of different gigs and sees them perform such songs as 'White Riot', 'Tommy Gun' and 'London's Burning'.
Christian action feature starring Kirk Cameron. Chaos ensues on Earth when millions of people mysteriously vanish, causing unmanned planes to fall from the sky and vehicles to crash and burn in the streets. As one of those left behind, journalist Buck Williams (Cameron) embarks on a quest to find the true cause of the devastation. He discovers the departed were all Christians who were instantly transported to heaven to save them from the prophesised Armageddon, leaving Buck and the other non-believers to tackle the arrival of the Antichrist and endure the forthcoming Great Tribulation...
British documentary style adventure thriller. A film crew venture into the Amazon jungle accompanied by zoology professor John Howson (Ben Loyd-Holmes) to conduct research on rare and endangered creatures. But the team are abandoned by their guide and quickly become lost in the vast rainforest. When they come face-to-face with a prehistoric T-Rex, the group realise they are the new prey of many other Jurassic predators that have survived in the region for thousands of years.
Drama thriller following a couple on two different scenarios on Independence Day in New York. Bobby (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Lynn Collins) are indecisive about whether to spend the holiday together in the city or whether to go to Kate's family home. They flip a coin, leaving it to chance to choose for them but both possible outcomes play out. One has them dealing with family drama and the decision of whether to reveal Kate's pregnancy, while the other sees them being chased around Manhattan after finding a mysterious mobile phone.
Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds and Gene Hackman star in this comedy drama set in Prohibition-era America. Young widow Claire (Minnelli) joins rum-runners Walker (Reynolds) and Kibby (Hackman) on their boat, the Lucky Lady, off the coast of San Diego to help with their liquor smuggling operation. But the trio's romantic peace is disturbed by an angry Coast Guard captain and the mafia, who send out hitman McTeague (John Hillerman) to deal with the small-timers who are infringing on their business operations.
Documentary about the rise, fall and reunion of the British new wave band Spandau Ballet. Featuring past performances, unseen archive footage and interviews with the band members, this documentary provides an insight into one of the most successful bands of the 1980s.
Filming of a stage performance of the play by David Watson, which was commissioned by the London-based knife crime charity Only Connect. Based on the true accounts of ex-offenders, and performed by a cast of ex-offenders and professional actors, the play tells the story of two school friends who become divided by murder.
Polish drama. The film follows Edyta (Katarzyna Herman), who has left her husband and family behind and moved to Warsaw where she spends her days driving around the city and her nights meeting random men in their own homes. Although she meets these men under the pretence of having sex with them, she instead drugs them with sleeping pills and only takes advantage of their hospitality. However, when she meets Patryk (Tomasz Tyndyk), her outlook takes a turn for the better and she begins to see a way out of her crisis. |
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